Webmaster Forum / PHP / General PHP Topics / February 2005

Good afternoon,
I am trying to validate a string that would check the first two
characters for the presence of GA, then do something.  How would this
be written?

I've been searching for a while and haven't found my specific question
anywhere else. If this has already been asked, please accept my
appologies and point me to the appropriate thread.
I'm bidding on a PHP intranet development contract. One of the specific

I'm building a PHP+MySQL application for a large website, with 100.000+
records in the main table, each one with a lot of dependencies in other
SQL tables. Thus each page view requires many SQL queries and/or joins.
Since I want to optimize performance, I'm wondering whether it ...

Anybody know wether one can create such text-form that pointer of mouse
will be automatically set in the text field of form? It means that user
can type text immediately after page has been loaded, without putting
pointer of mouse by hand in the text field.

I have this code, works perfectly on Windows server, but now i'm trying
to run it on a Linux server, the form submits, i get no errors, but the
photo doesnt upload, and the caption file doesnt write.... any ideas why??
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This is very strange.
I'm running MySQL 4.1.10, and php 4.3.10, on a FreeBSD 4.10 box.  The
database has been created, and permissions are set right.  I can access
the database from bin/mysql without a problem, too, using -uweb

I don't know if this is a PHP problem or a MySQL problem - hopefully,
someone here can give me a clue.
I am getting the subject error when I try to connect to MySQL from a
PHP page.

How can I toggle the display_errors function in PHP5 for Mac OS 10.3?
jon@corporates.com

Hi - I need a validation, that will validate a string of comma
delimited key phrases of one or two words only, without special
characters, numbers or uppercase letters, removing any duplicates in
the process.  Can someone please help me with this?  I would be

ok, this is bugging me now.
I do a mysql query and put the results in an array, then I do a
'while' loop saying roughly..........
$var1 = $row['var1'];

I would like to replace line breaks such '[\n\r]+' with '<br />'. Easy
task. Problems start when I try to only replace lines that do not end
with HTML tags.
I tried preg_replace("/[^>][\n\r]+/", "<br />\n") but this does not

Hi, after coding for days on stupid form validations -
Like:
strings (min / max length), numbers(min / max value), money(min / max
value), postcodes(min / max value), telefon numbers,

I have a strange bandwidth issue that I have finally tracked down to
something fairly specific if anyone has any ideas...
Setup: Win2003 Server, PHP 4.3.4, IIS6.0, ISAPI
Network: DSL line with a Cisco 678 router using NAT and static port

when a web request comes to my index.php, i would like index.php to execute
a php script stored in an external file and capture the external script's
output to a variable.
i am doing this because the external script can read the database and can

I've this code:
if(mysql_query("delete from emails where email = '$email'",$mydatabase)){
 if(mysql_affected_rows()>0)
   echo('successfull');